Landscape, Monumentality and Expression of Group identities in Iron Age and Roman east Kent

Wallace, Lacey; Mullen, Alex

Abstract

The Canterbury Hinterland Project (CHP) has combined aerial photographic and LiDAR analysis, synthesis of HER and other data across east Kent with targeted survey south and east of Canterbury. We present possible hillforts, temples, large enclosures, a major trackway, linking paths, burials, and high-status Roman-period complexes and argue that people organized the landscape to communicate meaning in two main ways: a ‘public’ face oriented towards the Dover–Canterbury road and expressions of ritual and remembrance for local groups. The character of this rural population has traditionally been understood in terms of its relationship to the civitas capital and villas, we look beyond this to examine a more detailed vision of possible social interactions.

Citation

Wallace, L., & Mullen, A. (2019). Landscape, Monumentality and Expression of Group identities in Iron Age and Roman east Kent. Britannia, 50, 75-108. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X19000308

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 8, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Jun 20, 2019
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2019
• Deposit Date: Apr 27, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: May 10, 2019
• Journal: Britannia
• Print ISSN: 0068-113X
• Electronic ISSN: 1753-5352
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 50
• Pages: 75-108
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X19000308
• Keywords: Aerial photography, Canterbury, Geophysical survey, Iron Age and Roman Kent, Landscape, Memory, Power, Ritual, Settlement, Social organization
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1121302
• Publisher URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/landscape-monumentality-and-expression-of-group-identities-in-iron-age-and-roman-east-kent/1C5057086A90941C911C4F4599148579
• Additional Information: © Cambridge University Press 2019